OK Here we go
I am Ed,
I was a student on the Refugee Studies Course at UEL from 2004-5,
I currently work as Quality Assurance Officer at a well known refugee organisation before i had this job, i worked for about 5 years as coordinator of interpreting in the same place - that experience informed a lot of the research towards my dissertation, which is still online here

my potted biography is online here as part of RC training brochure
i speak arabic and some swahili

(i am also 'admin' for the website, but i'll use that login for maintenance of the site rather than discussion)

I am Chupa, a former student on the course. I have recently left the Refugee Council after 5 years, having worked as the Institutional Giving Manager. I now work for a charity that houses and supports socially excluded people including refugees, as the Fundraising Manager.

The issues I am interested in are of course women's and human rights in general, Africa, HIV/Aids and development.

I came to UEL Refugee Studies as a lecturer in 2002 and have found a lively community of people all interested in using knowledge to help refugees. I hope that this forum will be an extension of the fruitful relationships we've all developed through the programme!

Hi all, happy to be registered within this forum opportunities! i am Levan, although everybody knows me as Leonid. Currently I am doing my dissertation at Refugee Studies in UEL. Glad to know there are some former students of UEL here!
Best,
Levan

My name is Chris, and like Levan I'm currenty doing my dissertation for the Refugee Studies MA. From an academic point of view, I come to this multidisciplinary study mainly from a media-direction i.e. media influence on discourses, power behind the media, relationship between media/government/general public etc.

Looking forward to using this as a helpful resource and as an opportunity for interesting debate on some of the issues close to us.

My name is Natalia and I'm currently finishing Refugee Studies. I'm writing my dissertation on the lived experience of NASS with a case study of Iranian asylum seeekers. I have BA and MA degrees in Cultural Anthropology so my approach is pretty much ethnographic.
Apart from this I've been doing voluntary work visiting people in detention centres for nearly two years now.
If you have any ideas related to the subject please share them with me

Hey there!
This is just a wonderful forum, and I just want to personally thank all who have quite obviously put a tremendous amount of effort into giving others the opportunity to communicate in this way! Well done!!!
My name is Meghan Brenna Morris. I was completed my dissertation in the autumn of 2005, and obtained my MA in International Social Work with Refugee Studies. My dissertation looked at the role of human dignity in the psychosocial healing process for refugee youth. I conducted comparative case studies with Somali youth resettled in the US, and repatriated Rwandan youth living in a genocide survival village there. I am still a part of the project that I worked for in Rwanda, and will return there in November.
Currently, I work for the Public Affairs Office of the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Outside of work, at the moment I am desperately trying to learn Arabic (I speak Spanish and Portuguese and have lived in Central America and Mexico, but Spanish is not overly helpful at present ). I also try to do yoga daily; I love cooking; I am a bit of a magical realism novel junkie; and, finally, I love just talking and debating with my husband.

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